Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Louie Gohmerthttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/louie-gohmert/Stories or blog posts about Louie Gohmert from Politifact.comen-usMon, 27 Apr 2015 14:38:48 -0400 Fact-checking claims about same-sex marriagehttp://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2015/apr/27/fact-checking-claims-about-same-sex-marriage/The fight over same-sex marriage will be in the spotlight again this week when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments Tuesday. The court will hear arguments that pertain to two questions: whether the Constitution&rsquo;s 14th Amendment, which guarantees due process and equal protection, compels states to recognize same-sex marriages and whether states must recognize such marriages performed in other states. Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee will defend their bans before the Supreme Court. Currently 36 states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage including Florida, although a challenge is underway in the 11th Circuit Court. The outcome of ... <a href="/florida/article/2015/apr/27/fact-checking-claims-about-same-sex-marriage/">>>More</a>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:38:48 -0400http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2015/apr/27/fact-checking-claims-about-same-sex-marriage/Louie Gohmert, House speaker aspirant, has PolitiFact report cardhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/jan/05/louie-gohmert-house-speaker-aspirant-has-politifac/Texan Louie Gohmert revealed this weekend he&#39;s available to replace the U.S. House speaker, John Boehner. Gohmert, R-Tyler, has faced the Truth-O-Meter eight times. His best result? A couple of Mostly Falses. Separately, New York Times columnist Gail Collins, made a couple flawed claims about him. See Louie Gohmert&#39;s PolitiFact report card here. See John Boehner&#39;s PolitiFact report card here. &nbsp; <a href="/texas/article/2015/jan/05/louie-gohmert-house-speaker-aspirant-has-politifac/">>>More</a>Mon, 05 Jan 2015 11:35:53 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/jan/05/louie-gohmert-house-speaker-aspirant-has-politifac/Getting the facts straight about the Founding Fathershttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jul/03/fact-checking-founding-fathers-misquoting/Invoking the Founding Fathers on Independence Day to celebrate our nation&rsquo;s birth is a fine thing to do. Invoking them to score political points? Watch out. Take, for example, a Facebook post about Benjamin Franklin that circulated in May, a post that was actually aimed at making fun of tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. The meme quotes Bachmann as saying, &quot;This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.&quot; &nbsp;Of course, Franklin was never president. And we think Bachmann knows that, as well, because she never actually said the quote. We rated the fabricated Facebook meme Pants ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jul/03/fact-checking-founding-fathers-misquoting/">>>More</a>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:26:59 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jul/03/fact-checking-founding-fathers-misquoting/Louie Gohmert, Austin, Texas, EPA employment: PolitiFact Oregon Rounduphttp://www.politifact.com/oregon/article/2014/apr/18/louie-gohmert-austin-texas-epa-employment-politifa/With April 15 quickly fading in the rear-view mirror, many beleaguered tax accountants are likely looking forward to taking a richly deserved day off. At PolitiFact Oregon, it&rsquo;s exactly the opposite. With each passing day, next month&rsquo;s primary election grows closer. We&rsquo;re spinning faster than a caffeinated gerbil on a wheel. Our fact-checking colleagues around the country, thankfully, are doing the same thing so we&rsquo;ll once again dip into their vast pool of checks for today&rsquo;s PolitiFact Oregon Roundup. 1. Gohmert piles on Wall Street claim Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, picked up on a claim that made its way into ... <a href="/oregon/article/2014/apr/18/louie-gohmert-austin-texas-epa-employment-politifa/">>>More</a>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:23:07 -0400http://www.politifact.com/oregon/article/2014/apr/18/louie-gohmert-austin-texas-epa-employment-politifa/Listen: Did Americans lack health coverage 40 years ago?http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/jan/29/listen-did-americans-lack-health-coverage-40-years/Louie Gohmert, the Tyler congressman, said in an interview that 40 years ago, hardly anybody had health insurance. Not so, PolitiFact found. Listen to our visit with Austin&#39;s KUT, 90.5 FM, about this fact check by clicking the orange button to the right. <a href="/texas/article/2014/jan/29/listen-did-americans-lack-health-coverage-40-years/">>>More</a>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:00:25 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/jan/29/listen-did-americans-lack-health-coverage-40-years/Presenting: The top 10 PolitiFact Texas fact checks of 2013http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/dec/30/presenting-top-10-politifact-texas-fact-checks-201/A chain email touched off our single-most read fact check of 2013, but even more readers gandered at the PolitiFact Texas Ted Cruz file--a compilation of more than 20 checks of claims by the junior U.S. senator from Texas. If nothing else, you can consider four Pants on Fires there. But without further ado, let&rsquo;s hat-tip the top 10 individual fact checks of the year, based on online reader views through mid-December: --Cruz&rsquo;s claim about Democrats telling the Catholic church they would use federal powers to shut down charities and hospitals if the church didn&rsquo;t relent on its beliefs came ... <a href="/texas/article/2013/dec/30/presenting-top-10-politifact-texas-fact-checks-201/">>>More</a>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 06:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/dec/30/presenting-top-10-politifact-texas-fact-checks-201/Al Qaeda camps with Mexican cartels? That&#39;s speculation, not facthttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/apr/23/gohmerts-al-qaeda-camps-mexico-not-supported-evide/U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, stressing border security, told a C-SPAN interviewer that our nation&#39;s best-known terrorist foe has camps south of the Texas-Mexico border. That&#39;s not supported by evidence, we concluded, rating his claim as False. The Tyler Republican said on C-SPAN&rsquo;s &quot;Washington Journal&quot; April 17, 2013: &quot;We know al Qaeda has camps over with the drug cartels on the other side of the Mexican border. We know that people are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanic when they&rsquo;re radical Islamists. We know these things are happening and... it&rsquo;s just insane not to protect ourselves.&quot; (See ... <a href="/texas/article/2013/apr/23/gohmerts-al-qaeda-camps-mexico-not-supported-evide/">>>More</a>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:55 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/apr/23/gohmerts-al-qaeda-camps-mexico-not-supported-evide/Bulb claims by the dozenhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/jul/28/light-bulb-claims-dont-die/U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, issued a July 15 warning about conventional light bulbs. &quot;Starting Jan. 1,&quot; Burgess said, &quot;if Home Depot or your local grocery store has the 100-watt (light) bulb in their inventory, they will not be allowed to sell them. That means they will take all 100-watt bulbs off the shelf, and they will never see the consumer.&quot; The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is expected to end the U.S. manufacture of such bulbs as of 2012. However, stores will be permitted to sell remaining stocks while more efficient bulbs giving off the same level ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/jul/28/light-bulb-claims-dont-die/">>>More</a>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:14:12 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/jul/28/light-bulb-claims-dont-die/Sweeping statements oft fuel fact checkshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/mar/08/never-only-nobody-absolutes-fuel-fact-checks/Objecting to Republican proposals potentially hastening cuts in public school aid, the chairman of the Travis County Democrats recently sounded a skeptical note about GOP Gov. Rick Perry&rsquo;s Feb. 8 call on higher education to devise a way that students could earn bachelor&rsquo;s degrees at a cost of $10,000, including textbooks. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;As for the governor&rsquo;s preposterous scheme to serve up $10,000 college degrees, nobody in higher education believes that is even possible,&quot; Andy Brown said in a Feb. 22 blog post. &quot;Tuition and books for a single year easily add up to that amount, and tuition likely will increase ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/mar/08/never-only-nobody-absolutes-fuel-fact-checks/">>>More</a>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:17:39 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/mar/08/never-only-nobody-absolutes-fuel-fact-checks/